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Digital transformation pushed to the top of the priority list for central Government
An estimated 60% of UK central government departments have an IT modernisation strategy in place and even more want to upgrade legacy systems due to security vulnerabilities, according to a new study from BAE Systems Applied Intelligence.
The recent research
Continue reading BAE Systems Applied Intelligence: Cyber security concerns drive digital transformation in UK public sector
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
As our cities continue to grow in population density, the need for positive environmental action on a domestic and global scale grows more urgent. However, the sheer complexity of contemporary urban living means city planners need more actionable insight into the factors affecting issues such as air quality
Continue reading How a Business IT Mindset Can Help Smart Cities Maintain Cleaner Air
Landmarc Support Services responds to new Ministry of Defence (MOD) report: Climate Change and Sustainability Strategic Approach, issued on 30 March 2021.
Landmarc Support Services (Landmarc) welcomes last month’s report on climate change from Lt. General Richard Nugee, Climate Change and Sustainability Review Lead in Defence, in which he sets out how Defence will redouble
Continue reading Landmarc welcomes new MOD report on climate change and sustainability
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
Most public sector organisations and their IT teams will be familiar with the challenge of balancing time between implementing new technologies against the need to keep existing systems running effectively. In some cases, organisations can do little more than focus on
Continue reading How to Tackle Technical Debt
Mark Florman, chairman and CEO of Time Partners
Some years ago, I did some work on the difference in the duties and responsibilities of directors of private companies and directors of public bodies. I noticed that I was one of very few people who had taken an active role in serving on both.
Continue reading THE TWELVE NEW PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNANCE FOR PUBLIC BODY NEDS
The new model for government procurement promises to help the nation ‘build back better’, but delivering on its full potential will require a shift in mindset from service buyers and procurement teams.
Whether it’s opting for a green energy tariff or making sure the fish we buy is from sustainable sources, consumers increasingly
Continue reading Can a social value dividend help the public purse invest for a better future?
Tom McVey, Solution Architect, Menlo Security, explains why government and defence organisations must look to build security resilience in 2021
In a year heavily influenced by the global crisis, the security risks faced by government and defence organisations are greater than ever, with cyber criminals exploiting ‘pandemic fear’ to launch more and more sophisticated
Continue reading Address the red flags of cybersecurity before raising the white flag
The cybersecurity risks and pressures faced by government and defence organisations are greater than ever in a year heavily influenced by the pandemic.
This year is set to be equally challenging. But before organisations raise the white flag of surrender, they should be taking a more uncompromising approach to cybersecurity by identifying and understanding the
Continue reading ‘Building cybersecurity resilience in 2021’ – Menlo Security invites government organisations to register for webinar
It has been announced that Pinnacle Group has been appointed to Tier 1 and Tier 2 of the Department for Work and Pension’s (DWP) Commercial Agreement for the provision of Employment and Health Related Services (CAEHRS) across North East England, Southern England, Central England, London and the Home Counties and Wales.
The CAEHRS programme will
Continue reading Pinnacle Group has been appointed to the new CAEHRS framework to tackle the UK’s employment and health challenges
Alert Technology Ltd, is excited to announce the launch of their new Alert PureAir R150 unit
Poor indoor air quality (IAQ) is a growing environmental health and wellbeing risk faced by most building occupiers today. Recognised as one of the largest environmental risks we face by WHO (World Health Organisation) – it is
Continue reading Alert Technology launches ‘ALERT PureAir’ – a new virus-killing purification unit to celebrate “Clean Air Day” 8th October
A Downing Street spokesperson has told GPSJ:
“The Prime Minister spoke to Yoshihide Suga this morning to congratulate him on his recent appointment as Prime Minister of Japan.
“The leaders discussed the importance of the UK-Japan relationship across economic cooperation, security and defence. They resolved to work together closely to tackle shared challenges such as
Continue reading Prime Minister and Prime Minister Suga welcome recent agreement on UK-Japan free trade
Reporter: Stuart Littleford – News
David Frost, Chief Negotiator has spoken to GPSJ on the conclusion of the fourth round of negotiations with the EU on our future relationship.
He said: “We have just completed our fourth full negotiating round with the EU, again by video conference. It was a little shorter than usual and
Continue reading David Frost comments on the conclusion of the fourth round of negotiations with the EU on our future relationship
The race is on to find a vaccine to COVID-19 and big data analysis is at the forefront of data modelling trends of the pandemic.
The Crown Commercial Services office has selected Bridgeworks to offer the NHS and qualifying medical research organisations data management services over the next twelve months, at no cost.
Bridgeworks letter
Continue reading Bridgeworks COVID-19 Offer supplied by the UK Crown Commercial Services Office
By Graham Jarvis, Freelance Business and Technology Journalist for GPSJ
The Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is spreading rapidly throughout the world and scientists are racing to find a vaccine. Big Data analytics, data visualisation and artificial intelligence are also being recruited to track the spread of the virus. This is with the aim of helping governments
Continue reading Pandemic: How A.I. and WAN Acceleration Can Help to Find a Cure
WPS, the award-winning parking solutions provider, is continuing to deliver essential maintenance and installation work for customers within key sectors such as healthcare and utilities to ensure 24-hour availability of essential parking infrastructure.
Simon Jarvis
Simon Jarvis, Managing Director of WPS in the UK, says that while some other parking system providers have
Continue reading WPS continues to support essential workers in critical sectors
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
Modernisation is a constant process and shouldn’t have a clear finishing point, whether it’s for the network, data centre, cloud, or IT management tools. This is necessary to ensure all systems and devices are up-to-date, functioning at the highest level and, particularly
Continue reading Don’t Get Your Network in Knots: A 5-Step Plan for Government Modernisation
Emergency prepaid card
Reporter: Stacy Clarke
allpay, a leading UK payment specialist, has announced a prepaid card programme has been made available to help disburse emergency funds to those affected by COVID-19. Emergency Government funds have been made available to help those in most need, and allpay’s prepaid cards can now enable those
Continue reading allpay’s Prepaid Cards to Help Disburse Emergency Funds for Those Affected by COVID-19
Unremitting financial pressures, ongoing staff reductions and the unforgiving need to deliver new political initiatives against tight budgets are leading local, regional and national government managers across the UK to turn to outsourced private sector business transformation experts for the delivery of organisational change and new services.
A leading supplier of this kind of high-level
Continue reading Under Pressure Public Sector Managers Turn to Private Sector Boardroom Expertise
Journey sharing app provides easy way for those in need to see the people around them who can help
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
As the government writes to 1.5 million vulnerable people to urge them to stay at home for 12 weeks, the community ethos of the Faxi car pooling app is coming to
Continue reading Car pooling mapping app can help communities support each other during coronavirus pandemic
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
Medi-Immune Ltd have revealed their ProtectivAir® compact, wearable, breathing device which will protect front-line healthcare staff and those
ProtectivAir® in use on a medical professional
working in biologically-compromised environments. ProtectivAir® is currently awaiting testing against the Coronavirus at PHE Porton Down. ProtectivAir® has proven extremely effective against a range of
Continue reading Medi-Immune Ltd Announce Covid19 Tests
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